Dear ResearchGate and fellow Members,
I cannot guess why RG management decided to abandon the members comments section that IMHO serves as a useful feedback for authors but if the reason(s) was not technical I propose the following middle-ground resolution:
This could be easily implemented by giving an option inside the "RG Member Profile Settings" to enable the "Comments" inside the web RG home page of a paper. By default this setting could be set to "disabled".
As an additional measure RG members could also be given the optional setting to choose to enable comments inside their RG paper web page "only" by other members that "follow you" and you "follow back".
Best Regards,
Emmanouil Markoulakis
RG Member
p.s.1. It would be nice if also technically possible, for the members who decide mutually to enable their comments, RG automatically bring back all their past comments.
p.s.2. It would be IMO much more fruitful than members arguing against RG management and complain, that we propose a solution.
Please, reply to this question thread. The more members reply here the more plausible it will become that RG will hear this.
An imho as clever as reasonal proposal fully to be supported from my side, as no-one will be „hurt“ by seemingly unwanted „peer-review replacing intended„ comments on ones published RG papers.
A very good idea. To bring back the deleted comments to the papers would bring back also the deleted recommendation points connected with them. Are they still available or have they been erased completely.
Please Reply to this question, even if it is with a simple,
"Yes I Agree with this Proposal".
Yes I agree with this proposal.
If the existing comments feature is attracting too much spam or abuse, a user page where the user can manage or moderate their comments, and see all comments for their papers in one place, and/or set explicit permissions, would be better than no comments allowed at all.
Perhaps have two management pages, "Other people's comments on my work", and "My comments on other people's work". I have over fifty papers on RG, I don't patrol them for comments, and I also won't be able to remember any other folk's papers I may have commented on, to check for responses.
Perhaps that's what they are working on, and the current feature is temporarily disabled while they try to see if they can develop something better?
Yes I agree with this proposal.
Such unfortunately will not invalidate or cure the scientific and reputational harm brought over before vibrant now dead RG community.
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